Show THE GIANT EVIL A sermon en intemperance delivered by rev clr jeffrey an interesting discourse on intemperance was preached at the methodist church last sunday night by bev G M geffrey lie opened his remarks hy referring to the meiso un magnitude of intemperance end quoting the ath verse of alie ath chapter of genesis there were giants in the earth in those days and also after chaty when the sons of god came anlo the daughters of men and aliey hare children to them the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown this vice has been growing and growing until there is not a home in all this land of ours that lias not been touched by this giant evil of intemperance I 1 think you will agree with me in my hasty talk tonight to night how to meet this giant evilia a question that is of interest to every fugier and mother if we let it it will destroy every home in this great land of ours to be silent is to be criminal to retreat will be cowardly to wait for a mure propitious season will be but to strengthen the enemy and send half a million of our young men down the hill there is no other evil that confronts the american people today to day eliat presents such a great magnitude as does this great evil it is sending hundreds and thousands of our fathers and brothers down to liell I 1 am compelled to because of my love for you and my love for home and because of mv n as a christian minister le r my liand forget its cunning and my tonne cleave to the roof of my mouth if ever I 1 should fail to my voice against intemperance As we walk along the streets wo aie jostled frum the sidewalks by drunk aeils arils for years aliis giant evil lisis been stalking fourth seeking whom lie may devour and millions have gone down him and vet ho grows stronger and more robust every day there sire art furrows on his smooth face although ho lias sloughed ploughed hed them by the thousands on alio faces of the clail there are hundreds and thousands tonight to night while I 1 am speaking to you who are taking the firey cup from liis hands and reeling fourth into alie there is but one think eliat this giant dreada and eliat is a cold water deluge h but lie is determined to live long and well and unless there ia a power exerted against him lie will not die uncil every one of our in have been blighted by his fiands lie h ia jolly good companions lie has roskco the cradles of alie nation until lie ins h coine very popular lie lias been lit at every new dynasty throughout h world and lie lias been present it alio llio t dirril of every his birtle MUS it armenia and liis first victim wi alf good man noich alie history f 1000 years demon Unites alie fact sui t iiii it hid father a siren liis mother arl ix imiolo earth his home to accompli sli such a task as alie review of what thib giant evil is doing ii more than e conail do on this platform in one fiur every evening for alie next six I 1 month giuli i history would be a history of crimes eliat would make us all shudder elih giant evil ia no pauper 10 lias made millions of human bring burh lie is not a bankrupt but lie iiii aca multitudes of bankrupt men every year he leiis and commands great wealth lie has an annual income of not less than a billion takes alie bread from not less than women aal children every year they say it is a legitimate business they might as well come and take my home and all and say it was legitimate this giant takes the home and the farm and turns alie helpless children out into alie street out into the cold world to battlo against its storms tell me its right all you canic do it lie liaa ample funds to buy up all the purchasable voters and often packs the jury boxes his business places are fitted up most elegantly he reclines upon costly couches upon liis bosom sparkles costly diamonds he rides in fine carriages and resides in splendid mansions aback of all this splendor are alie hovels of the poor filled with sorrowing mot liers and wives and weeping children let america step forth in their manhood let the women and citizens of our fair land forth and say this evil go let us step fourth in the majesty of our strength and down this great g bant of intemperance |